January was Bock Month

Saturday January 23 the Boston Beer Club gathered for Bock month. To be honest this was not a style most of our group was familiar with, which was both intriguing and daunting at the same time. We sampled a wide variety of straight bocks, doppels, and tribels as well as a maibock. Normally we would rank the ones we tasted, but the sheer volume and variety made it virtually impossible to do a fair rating. There were a couple of things that did come-out of the tasting worth noting:

1. Bocks are traditionally in season in late spring, which made giving a fair taste, particularly to some of the traditional ones from Germany, tough.
   
2. We found bocks by and large to be very malt forward in stark contrast to the craft brews most of us of grew-up on (this is not a critique, but instead just an observation).

Conclusions: Despite our group's varying tastes, and preferences in beer, the general conclusion was that there were not many of the bocks we tried that any of us would order again. If we were to recommend one that is accessible to those with craft brew backgrounds, it would be Sierra Nevada's Glissade Golden Bock.

Stouts are in one week!!! Yeah Stout month!!